If you've ever used email, you've received your share of online party invitations with clip-art-level graphics and a 1998-ish aesthetic. Someecards, a site with actually good e-cards, makes your invitations fun to read and easy to manage.

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If you've used Someecards' greetings before, you know they lean toward the arch, the ironic, and the surreal, and they're generally far more smile-inducing than a cartoon purple party had with a bunch of confetti jammed into a background image. Their invite service brings a similar kind of snarky humor to organizing parties, and guests get a very usable page linked from their invite email. The most useful feature I noted off the bat was a quick auto-generated Google Maps link, and no need to sign up for Someecards' services to reply or leave a comment. You can give certain guests the ability to invite others, and designate certain folks as "honorees" that won't see a guest list or time details, if you'd prefer.

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Someecards' invite service is free to use, requires an account to send and manage invitations. Some invites have commercial sponsors.